Table of Contents

• Foreword by Thomas F. Staley
• Early and Late Testament (1952)
  • Early and Late Testament
    • (Preamble)
      • Time of Brightness
    • (First Testament)
      • Bread
    • (Second Testament)
      • The Iron Lands
      • Do I Know Their Names?
      • For a Workers' Road-Song
      • All Day the Chill...
      • Will You Remake These Worlds?
    • (Third Testament)
      • A Coil of Glass (I)
      • Anchorage in Time (I)
    • (Fourth Testament)
      • This War Is Love
      • A Coil of Glass (II)
      • Hero Statues
    • (Fifth Testament)
      • Dialogue of the Heartbeat
      • The Bridge
      • Heartbeat Obbligato
      • End of the Flower-World
    • (Sixth Testament)
      • Looking for Papa
      • Among Trees of Light
      • Coasts of Darkness
      • In Strength of Singleness
    • (Seventh Testament)
      • Blood
      • It Was Never This Quiet...
      • When Was It Lost?
      • Woodpecker
      • Voices in Dearness...
      • Song Aspires to Silence
      • Anchorage in Time (II)
    • (Eighth Testament)
      • Two Men Fell in the Irish Sea
  • Poetry: The Art
  • Odes and Lyrics
    • To a Young Girl Sleeping
    • Innocence
    • Wave
    • Event in a Field
    • The Fear
    • Light Outlives All Shape
    • Midnight: Deserted Pavements
    • Random Pieces of a Man
    • Waiting in Winter
    • Outcast of the Waters
    • Restful Ground
    • Days
    • Driving Song
    • Willowy Wind
  • The Hollow River
  • Second-Hand Poems
    • Anonymous Alba: En un vergier soiz folha d'albespi
    • Orléans: Le temps a laissié...
    • Spire: Nudités
    • Spire: Ce n'est pas toi...
    • Spire: Nativité
    • Spire: Un parfum éternel...
    • Spire: Baisers
    • Spire: Friselis
    • Spire: Volupté
• Caged in an Animal's Mind (1963)
  • Thoughts about a Garden
    • Historical Song of Then and Now
    • Summer
    • Ravel and Bind
    • Caged in an Animal's Mind
    • Ancient of Nights
    • Symbol Curse
    • The Valley Between
    • Thoughts about a Garden
    • Petitioner Dogs
    • Father-Stones
    • Night of the Canyon Sun
    • A Recurring Vision
    • Midnight Wind to the Tossed
  • The Axe of Eden
  • Listen:
  • Random Pieces of a Man
    • Thoughts of the War and My Daughter
    • A River
    • Surface
    • Preparation for Self-Portrait in Black Stone
    • Mornings of St. Croix
    • Boy over a Stream
    • Letter from One Who Could Not Cross the Frontier
    • Voyage: Journal Entry
    • Nightmare in a Workshop
    • Seven
    • Clay
    • A Rose Song
    • Guide's Speech on a Road near Delphi
    • Song of Nothings: In the Mountain's Shadow at Delphi
    • I Think among Blank Walls
    • Seedling Air
    • Three in Throes
    • Modes of Belief
    • House in St. Petersburg
  • Time Is a Double Line
  • Second-Hand Poems
    • Akhmatova: The Muse
    • George: Denk nicht zu viel...
    • Éluard: L'Amoureuse
    • Von Hofmannsthal: Eigene Sprache
    • Alberti: El ángel bueno
• In the Terrified Radiance (1972)
  • The Terrified Radiance
    • The Terrified Radiance
    • To a Crow
    • Innocent War
    • Gulls...
    • Central Park: Midwinter
    • The Finding Light
    • Erstwhile Hunter
    • Their Singing River (I)
    • Not to Bereave...
    • Underbreathing Song
    • Emptiness...
    • Procreations
  • Women and Men
    • Movie Poster on a Subway Wall
    • End of a Visit
    • The Echoing Shape
    • Summer Morning Train to the City
    • Women and Men
    • Terah
    • Isaac
    • Talmudist
    • What Plato Was
    • Song of Succession
    • En l'an...
    • Dialogue of the Stone Other
    • In the Coastal Cities
    • Will of Choice
    • Chanson Innocente
    • The Rock
    • Condor Festival
  • Three Friends
    • We Brought You Away As Before...
    • Friend across the Ocean
    • Wildness
  • The Hero of Silence
    • I. Dedication: An Eternity of Words
    • II. Master and Pupils
    • III. Soliloquy from a Window: Man and Flowers
    • IV. Dialogue before Waking
    • V. Fume
    • VI. Into the Blond Torrent
    • VII. The Waking
  • Second-Hand Poems
    • Paz: Más allá del amor
    • Spire: Retour des Martinets
    • Alberti: Canción del ángel sin suerte
    • Alberti: El ángel mentiroso
    • Verhaeren: La Bêche
    • Akhmatova: from "The White Flock"
    • Unamuno: Me destierro...
• Mirages: Travel Notes in the Promised Land (1977)
  • I. First Landscape
  • II. Generations of Terror
  • III. Blind Tale
  • IV. Seventh-day Mirage
  • V. The Rock
  • VI. Talmudist
  • VII. Marching Song
  • VIII. Choices
• Later Poems (1977- )
  • Message to Someone Four Hundred Nights Away
  • The House Hollow
  • Argon
  • Florida Seaside
  • Old Enough at Last to Be Unsolemn
  • Mind, If You Mourn at All
  • To Wake Each Dawn
  • Their Singing River (II)
  • Speech, the Thinking-Miracle
  • Man on a Greensward
• Social Poems of the Depression (from The New Masses and The Iron Land [1936])
  • The Crane-Driver
  • Street Song: New Style
  • I, Jim Rogers
  • Mr. Tubbe's Morning Service
• Notes on the Poems
• Selected Prose
  • My Friend, My Father
  • Stevens' "Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue"
  • The Poem Itself: "Discussing Poems into English"
  • Thomas Mann Translates "Tonio Kröger"
  • A Future for Poetry: Planetary Maturity
  • The Seamless Web
  • Toward the "Knowable" Frost
• Index of Poem Titles and First Lines